Vita D- Get naked and lose the sunscreen!

#StyleMeJuly Day 12 (yesterday's challenge): Sunglasses

Vita D-Get naked and lose the sunscreen!

Instagram awesomeness by Micah B. Rubin

Healthy Tip: Vitamin D- it's essential to our bodies.  If you are a NY'er like me, we need to make a special effort to get enough of it as we tunnel to work in our speeding bullets and hunker down in our dark little work caves for 10hrs a day.  A lot of foods these days make health claims of being "Vitamin D fortified", don't buy into it.  You have to consume a LOT of Vita D fortified foods to get your daily dose.  A lot as in 10 tall glasses of milk a day.  No thank you.  You can achieve the same result by spending 10-20 min outside depending on how far you are from the equator.  Our bodies make Vitamin D when we are hit by the ultraviolet rays of the sun.  AND did you know sunscreen blocks our bodies ability to generate Vitamin D?  (Something the sunscreen companies don't want you to know.)  Live dangerously!  Get outside today and take a walk without greasing up first.  Gasp! Spending 10min unprotected in the sun every day is not going to give you cancer.  

Fashionista Wannabe:  These are the only sunglasses I have and I picked them up for $8 from a street vendor.  I break sunglasses.  I scratch sunglasses.  I sit on, mangle and destroy sunglasses.  Thus my reasoning for always having a cheap pair.  Sigh.  Someday I'll have nice things.

In sunny health,

Joanie

Joanie Johnson, CHC

Motivated Nutrition

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Channeling Audrey and finding balance for #StyleMeJuly

#StyleMeJuly challenge Day 6

Channeling (a balanced) Audrey
 

Instagram awesomeness by Micah B. Rubin

Healthy Tip: For today's "Channeling Audrey" challenge, I did a little research on the elegant Ms. Hepburn and her healthy habits.  I found a quote from her first husband Mel Ferrer saying, "She was very careful about her diet, did not drink alcohol except an occasional glass of wine with dinner, and avoided desserts. She chose her diet as a dancer would: plenty of protein and lots of vegetables and salads. She ate sparingly and rarely splurged."

Eat sparingly and rarely splurge.  That's great advice for all of us.  Our amazing lives should be fueled by the food we eat, not controlled by it.  Audrey seemed to know the importance of balance. 

Fashionista Wannabe:  My favorite little black Brooklyn Industries dress and my newly cut (by myself) side swept bang.  :)  Instant Audrey fashion.  

In perfectly balanced health,

Joanie

Joanie Johnson, CHC

Motivated Nutrition

www.motivatednutrition.net

814-442-5311

Healthy Fashionista Challenge

I'm a health coach.  I eat and work out really well.  I'm a dancer.  I can touch my toes and bust a move in heels.  I work with kids.  I can create fun games at the drop of a hat and run circles around the fastest 3 yr old in the room.  I'm a fitness instructor.  I can rock my hot pink Nikes as I jump rope and do crunches into oblivion.

What I'm not, is a fashionista.  My boyfriend, who used to work in fashion magazines is constantly offering gentle suggestions on how I might alter my outfits before leaving the house.  Ok, it's not usually gentle.  It's usually delivered in the form of, "Uhhhh...are you really wearing that!"

Since we've gotten back from our 7 1/2 months of travel (You missed our travel blog?  Where have you been? http://bucketbath.travellerspoint.com/ ) and wearing the same 3 outfits for that amount of time (don't worry EVERYTHING was given away before we even boarded the plane home from India) I find myself longing for an amazing New Yorker wardrobe.  Unfortunately, 90% of my clothing is STILL in storage and I've been forced to get creative while I run around the city as my fabulous, health coaching, dancing, kid wrangling, fitness instructing self. 

This has all lead me to become obsessed with the fashion advice of fellow Brooklyn-ite, Hilary Rushford and her blog, Bow Ties & Bettys.  I'm waiting for the day I can afford (or be given the awesome gift...anyone?) to have her over to do a wardrobe edit.  Until then, I'm taking her July Instagram photo challenge.  I'm hoping it brings out the fashionista that is hidden under all the workout clothes and sweat every day.

As and added challenge, I'm going to try to accessorize it with some healthy advice, work-out move or recipe.  

Wish me luck!  Better yet, join in and take the challenge with me!  Check it out here: